WELCOME!

To my Profile Unit Website! Here, you can find the various projects we created in our fifth unit here at Freestyle. For this unit, everyone was given the oppurtunity to highlight someone within our community that has an interesting background and is involved with a researchable issue for this project.

Using our star interviewees as our building point, we went about creating several pieces of media based on our "characters". In English, we drafted our own profie papers about our interviewee which included pieces of personal research and direct interviews from both our star interviewee and other people who have some sort of relationship with the person we were profiling. We then took that essay in turned it into a magazine in Design. You can view my magazine by clicking on the thymbnail in this section. Using Adobe InDesign, we created a 6 page magazine using several instances of Adobe Photoshop along with it.Our magazines included several images of our subjects along with different design elements as well. In Web Audio, we created a media feature presentation for our star interviewee. Using Adobe After Effects, we used the many tools and effects available to us in After Effects to create our media feature which was based off of a condensed version of our essay.

For my profile project, I chose to star Patrick Carras, a physical education teacher and varsity football coach at Los Altos High School. Carras, being a California local, attended Pleasant Valley High School in Chico, CA. Being a three-sport athlete all four years, Carras continued to play sports into college. Carras played football at Cabrillo Community College before transferring to Chico State where he earned his degree in Physical Education (2002) and his teaching credentials (2003). Currently teaching in his 10th year of teaching physical eduaction, Carras, along with every other PE teacher in our nation, have taken on the burden of keeping today's young adults enthusiastic about physical activity. I felt that PE teachers weren't receiving the recognition they deserve which is why I chose to base my project on the issue of inactivity amongst young adults today.

The overall goal of the Profile unit here at Freestyle Academy is to see how well we can portray someone within our community who is involved with a social problem through several forms of media. After reading and reviewing several other profiles written by several others, we then went about creating our own profiles of someone who we thought was interesting. With Patrick Carras being my star in this project, continue through my website to learn more about him and the problem he is involved with.

PROFILE MEDIA

Here you may find all the pieces of media we have created for our star interviewee in this unit. Presented in this section is my media feature. Using Adobe After Effects for the first time, we created our first video using this Adobe program. Having no background knowledge on how to use the actual program, I struggled with it. Being a Web Audio student here at Freestyle, I have never actually opened up the program before. With the help of some Film students, I was able to come up with the video below after following several pointers and explanation.

PHOTO GALLERY

In this section, you can find a gallery of my photos that were taken of my star interviewee Patrick Carras. I was allowed to sort of shadow Carras in one of his classes to take several required photos for this section. These photos were taken on the day the class was working on proper throwing technique with a football.

Explaining

After having his students stretch, Carras explains the plan of the day

Watching

After separating into groups, Carras looks over his students

Examination

Carras watches as students try to show proper technique

Attendance

As the students grab equipment, Carras looks over the attendance

Talking

Another photo of Carras explaining the layout of the day

Explaining

While everyone is at play, Carras is helping students who are confused or have questions

Supervising

Students grabbing needed equipment

Supervising

Watching students at play

Wandering

Carras wanders through the groups as they practice

Talking

Another photo of Carras explaining the plan of the day to his class

Clipboard

Carras flipping through papers in his clipboard

Calling

Carras calls a student over to discuss something

Talking

Carras interacts with his students as they play

Group

Photo of Carras with class before they get into groups

Glance

Carras caught glancing at the camera

Looking Away

Carras smoothly looks away from awkward eye contact with camera man

Students

Picture of Carras with students crowded around him

Profile

Here's the raw photo used for the profile picture of Carras